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    Monthly Archive for: "April, 2018"
     Monday Motivation: Head-hopping should be forbidden
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog
    Posted April 30, 2018

    Monday Motivation: Head-hopping should be forbidden

    Why is the point of view you choose to write in so critical to the effects you wish to create in your narrative? The writer’s job, as I’ve said before, […]

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     Writing Secrets: Go on, leap – we’ll leap with you
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted April 25, 2018

    Writing Secrets: Go on, leap – we’ll leap with you

    We don’t need to follow your characters into the bathroom to brush their teeth, unless something significant happens there. Likewise, we don’t need to know every step they take to […]

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     Monday Motivation: Make enemies, win wars
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog
    Posted April 23, 2018

    Monday Motivation: Make enemies, win wars

    I’m going to get to my subject today in a roundabout way, if you don’t mind. Sometimes the route you take to your destination is as interesting as the destination. […]

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     Writing coaching programme – with an added bonus
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    By All About Writing
    In Creative Writing Courses
    Posted April 19, 2018

    Writing coaching programme – with an added bonus

    Have you ever wished for a gentle guide who prods you to write each day? Someone who coaches you on best practice? Who is on your side? That’s what we’re […]

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     Writing Secrets: Remember the flow
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted April 18, 2018

    Writing Secrets: Remember the flow

    Memoir writers often start out with less trepidation than their fiction-scribbling peers. They already know the story, right? They’re familiar with the characters, and they can picture the scenes [...]

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     Monday Motivation: What story’s really all about
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog
    Posted April 16, 2018

    Monday Motivation: What story’s really all about

    I continue to think of parallels between life and the imaginary worlds of all our fictions. There have to be these equivalences, because otherwise fiction wouldn’t resonate with us; we […]

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     April newsletter: A little writing help from your friends
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Newsletters, Writing Challenge
    Posted April 12, 2018

    April newsletter: A little writing help from your friends

    Writing is a solitary process, which means it can leave you feeling lost and not a little lonely. In last month’s newsletter, we set out to help you to help […]

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     Writing Secrets: We are what we notice
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted April 11, 2018

    Writing Secrets: We are what we notice

    I read a manuscript recently in which the protagonist gazed out at the sun-filled park. Okay, fair enough, perhaps it gives us some sense of his world … but not […]

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     February/March writing challenge results
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    By All About Writing
    In Writing Challenge, Writing Competitions
    Posted April 11, 2018

    February/March writing challenge results

    Congratulations to everyone who entered our February/March writing challenge . It wasn’t an easy one, because it relied so heavily on subtext – and all of you engaged with it […]

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     Enter our challenge and stand a chance to win a writing course
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    By All About Writing
    In Tips for Writers, Writing Challenge, Writing Competitions
    Posted April 10, 2018

    Enter our challenge and stand a chance to win a writing course

    All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner a place on our creative writing ​Coaching Programme: Focus on scenes.  It’s a fourteen step programme with your own personal [...]

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     Monday Motivation: Politicians should learn a thing or two from writers
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog
    Posted April 9, 2018

    Monday Motivation: Politicians should learn a thing or two from writers

    The skills and insights of creative writing have more applications in the “real” world than we sometimes realise. Politics, for instance, consists largely of opposing narratives. Different [...]

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     Writing Secrets: Don’t write about the war
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted April 4, 2018

    Writing Secrets: Don’t write about the war

    I am approached all the time by people who tell me they’re keen to write a book, and when I ask what it’s about, they say … the Indian uprising […]

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    Check out our new blog series, The hidden secrets Check out our new blog series, The hidden secrets of writing, highlighting books published by past students of our Creative Writing Course or Mentoring Program.  We'll take an extract, identify writing skills and techniques  and offer  a tip or two (or three) suggested by our analysis of the chosen passage. The first in the series is #pleasuresoftheharbours by #adamkethro published by @tmpublishers
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    In this first Monday Motivation of 2023, Richard c In this first Monday Motivation of 2023, Richard considers that essential element of every memorable story: Voice. What precisely is it, and how do you develop it? http://ow.ly/Tr1N50MxoPq  #writingcommunity #amwriting #writingtips #adviceforwriters #writingadvice #MondayMotivation #writersofinstagram
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